Director of AI Product Management, Red Ventures
Consumer
$270-300k
+ Potential Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Media and publishing company
Open for applications
Media and publishing company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$270-300k
+ Potential Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To partner with brands in order to connect customers with the products and services they need most.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires a leader who can move fluidly between strategic direction-setting and hands-on product leadership
- Commercial alignment: You bring an entrepreneurial mindset paired with strong commercial instincts, identifying where value can be unlocked across the portfolio and shaping strategic bets that meaningfully advance customer and business outcomes
- Systems thinker: You understand how teams, workflows, incentives, and technology interact across an organization, enabling you to diagnose bottlenecks, redesign processes, and scale patterns that drive better outcomes
- Relationship-driven: You build durable relationships with internal leaders and external counterparts understanding their motivations and needs, and using these partnerships to shape decisions and accelerate impact
- 0→1 delivery: Demonstrated success leading new products from zero to launch, shaping the vision, setting direction, and driving execution in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Built from experience: You have been in the code, run analyses, and optimized real-world AI systems, which enables you to lead from a place of practical experience rather than abstraction
- Shipping with complex partners: Experience bringing products to market in environments involving clients, B2B partners, or internal teams, aligning roadmaps, managing integrations, and ensuring successful delivery across organizational boundaries
- Leading and developing managers: Experience managing and growing product managers, providing hands-on coaching, setting performance expectations, and building a high-performing, accountable team
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Director of AI Product Management to lead product and delivery for one of our sub-industries inside of Home
- Our product organization is responsible for transforming our internal and clients’ customer acquisition, retention, and operations through applications of AI and ML
- In this role, you will lead a team responsible for building, optimizing, and scaling innovative, AI-driven products that address core customer and partner challenges, ensuring we deliver measurable and sustained business value
- You will partner closely with cross-functional leaders to define the vision for your portfolio, establishing the “what” and “why” behind major product decisions
- Working through your downline, you will then translate this direction into the “how,” ensuring teams operate with clarity, focus, and alignment to strategic goals
- You will evaluate and prioritize initiatives across the portfolio, make informed trade-offs based on feasibility and business value, while deeply understanding your numbers and operations, ensuring that performance and impact are well documented and used to guide ongoing decision-making
- This role will have the opportunity to shape and influence the organization at multiple levels
- You will serve as a leader of managers, empowering product managers to operate autonomously, developing their product and technical skill sets, and building a strong talent pipeline for the future
- You will partner closely with internal and external partners to ideate solutions, navigate trade-offs, and align on the decisions needed to move the portfolio forward
- You will set high standards for product excellence across the broader organization and establish clarity on what “good” looks like in technical execution, analytical rigor, and decision-making
- Own the portfolio outcomes: Drive measurable impact across a suite of AI transformation initiatives, overseeing portfolio budgets, defining resources and costs to meet objectives, and securing leadership alignment on investment decisions. Serve as the key point of accountability for performance, ROI, and subsequent investments
- Shape strategy with clients: Partner with internal and external stakeholders to understand customer needs, frame problems, co-design solutions, and translate those insights into a clear portfolio strategy that identifies where we can unlock value
- Guide execution and decisions: Establish operating rhythms, decision frameworks, and delivery practices that enable your teams to execute effectively. Evaluate trade-offs across initiatives using data, P&L impact, feasibility, and sequencing to determine where to focus and how to allocate resources, objectively assessing the ongoing strategy and operating model
- Develop leaders: Lead and develop a highly accountable team of product managers by working hands-on with them, providing direct guidance on their work, and supporting their growth as leaders
- Anticipate and foster innovation: Bring a forward-looking perspective on emerging technologies and AI/ML capabilities, understanding how they may reshape customer needs and solution approaches. Promote a culture of experimentation, supporting teams as they explore and deliver innovative ideas, with you leading by example
Our take
Red Ventures was founded in 2000, shortly before the dot-com bubble burst. It survived the crash, however, and has grown into one of America's biggest digital media companies. Its brands include Lonely Planet, Healthline and TV Guide.
The company was last valued at around $11 billion, which is evidence that its focus on momentum and adaptability has proven successful. Red Ventures is one of the major companies leading the shift towards intent-based media. It has acquired a range of specialist sites and publishing houses that serve the travel, tech and health sectors.
Red Ventures has managed to successfully out-compete rivals by moving away from the more traditional direct sales approach. Instead, it has focused on guiding customers towards purchases on other sites, and then taking a commission. The company's agility and laser-sharp focus on advice and specialty subjects will prove invaluable in the years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2015
$250m
LATE VC
Total funding: $250m
Company benefits
- Hybrid Schedule & Flexible PTO: Take advantage of 3-4 days in-office per week and 1-2 WFH days per week (varying by team), and a robust Paid Time Off program that includes logging off for "Winter Week."
- Family Support, Planning, and Fertility: Our benefit offerings support every unique path to parenthood including fertility, egg freezing, adoption, surrogacy, parental bonding, and more.
- Mentorship Culture: Find a mentor, be a mentor, say yes to something new. This is a place where you’re guaranteed to build connections that extend past your immediate team and even your tenure at RV.
- Purpose & Community: We empower employees to make an impact for causes they care about, and we invest heavily in systemic impact through nonprofits like Road to Hire.
- World-Class Wellness: In addition to the on-site amenities at HQ, our unique wellness benefits include free therapy sessions and counseling for U.S. employees and family members.
Company HQ
Indian Land, SC
Leadership
Ric Elias
(Co-Founder & CEO)Ric co-founded Red Ventures in 2000 and has served as the CEO since.
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